Story: Organised crime online needs an organised response

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IT Solutions have equal and exceed the ID theft problem

The crooks think link us bankers thought in the past which is way too parochial. So the future requires novel thinking. I think the big IT solutions of software to fight software, or worm wars, is a loss. Big IT cannot protect PCUs and central server platforms without keeping the PIN and private data offline. That path is the only viable one.

At center here are IT chunckers who are offshore of the crime. Chunkers are the guys who hire themselves out to cyber crime syndicates just to do one thing are all white collar criminals. They don't ask who, what or why and they are paid usually in offshore accounts set up for one transaction only often using offshore gold dealer card agencies which have the patina of respectability.

Chunkers started originally out of Russian where there were more PhD's and Master Degrees in programming without a viable economic
infrastructure to support them so they hired themselves out to various mafias on a per task basis.

This started the present global crisis. Then a trend in the U. S. of A. is students don't want to be programmers anymore so a lot of hi tech engineers are now immported from Arab and Asian countries.

All a programmer has to do is buy systems upon which proprietary programming is designed and put a worm in it allowing him access and voila, worm wars. Any ID online is not secure for this reason.

What is to stop terrorists from hiring a chunker for theft, sabotage or money laundering and not telling him why as if a chunker would care. It is foolish to assume this isn't happening. The Swedish theft could be anyone and used by anyone for anything already blocked.

Furthermore, as I say on my blog "Abdul Tawala Alishtari" in ZDNet UK, the answer is keeping private ID and PIN numbers off the Internet.

This was granted in July 22, 2003 in the U. S. A. by the USPTO to a predecessor company now owned by IDPixie LLC. That patent number is US 6,598.031 B1 to Mr. Jeffrey Ice, Inventor, for "APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROUTING ENCRYPTED TRANSACTION CARD IDENTIFYING DATA THROUGH A PUBLIC TELEPHONE NETWORK" i.e. Internet, phones or any electronic medium in the U. S. of A.

Orbiscom of Scotland, owned by JPMorganChase bank has a similar patent though it does not hand the offline device part but works with central servers. The answer is keep the data that allows theft from the thieves. It cannot be too hard to do if we all do it.

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